• PAST SEMINARS OF SEE

Past seminars of Systematics/Ecology/Evolution interest

1998

Dr. Hans Paerl, University of North Carolina, "Coastal eutrophication dynamics"

Dr. David B. Clark, La Selva Biological Station, Costa Rica, "Tropical rainforests and the global carbon cycle"

Dr. David Ward, Montana State University, "A natural view of microbial biodiversity within hot spring cyanobacterial mat communities"

Dr. Egbert G. Leigh, Jr., Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, "Why it is dangerous to cut the adaptationist out of the evolutionary biologist?"

Dr. Henry F. Howe, University of Illinois at Chicago, "Fire season and succession in synthetic tallgrass communities"

Dr. Cori Bargmann, University of California, San Francisco, "Genetic analysis of olfactory discrimination and social behavior in C. elegans"

Dr. Prescott Deininger, Tulane University, "Mobile elements: reshaping the mammalian genome"

Dr. A. Michelle Wood, University of Oregon, "Phycoerythrin diversity and adaptation in marine cyanobacteria"

Dr. Franz Wuketits, University of Vienna, Austria, "Genes, sex and power: the sociobiology controversy from the European point of view"

Dr. H. James Birx, Canisius College, "Darwin, science and religion"

Dr. Joseph Seckbach, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, "Cellular evolution from prokaryota to eukaryota, and the acidophilic hot springs algae among other extremeophiles"

1999

Dr. Joan M. Bernhard, University of South Carolina, "Paleontological and cell biological perspectives on meiofauna of the oxygen-poor Santa Barbara basin"

Dr. Guido Braeman, University of Giessen, "Systematics of orchids"

Dr. Alberto Acosta, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium, Cocodrie, LA, "The modes of asexual reproduction in a zoanthid coral"

Dr. Jeffery H. Miller, UCLA, "Mutagenesis, mutation and repair: from bacteria to humans to Archaea"

Dr. Thomas Shirley, University of Alaska, "Winter crab fisheries in Alaska"

Dr. Howard P. Riessen, Buffalo State College, "Life history evolution in Daphnia"

Dr. Larry Harshman, University of Nebraska, "Remating and sperm competition in Drosophila melanogaster"

Dr. Frederick Sheldon, Louisiana State University, "Systematics, evolution, and behavior of herons"

Dr. James S. Clark, Duke University, "Dispersal and plant migration: what we have learned from models"

2000

Dr. David Swofford, Smithsonian Institution, "Maximum likelihood vs. parsimony in phylogenetic reconstruction"

Dr. David Hillis, University of Texas, "Parallel evolution of morphology and molecules"

Dr. John Taylor, University of California, Berkeley, "Sex, genetic isolation, and species concepts in fungi"

Dr. Thomas Bruns, University of California, Berkeley, "Observations on specificity in ectomycorrhizal communities"

 Dr. Ursula Goodenough, Washington University, "Evolution of sex proteins in Chlamydomonas"

2001

Dr. Cliff Cunningham, Duke University, "Comparing population histories of North Atlantic nmarine invertebrate communities."

Dr. Robert Peet, University of North Carolina, "Patterns of species diversity in terrestrial vegetation."

Dr. Duncan Irschick, Tulane University, "Evolutionary tests of ecological ideas using lizards as a model system."

2002

Dr. Loren Rieseberg, Indiana University, "Transgressive Segregation, Adapotation and Speciation."

Dr. Bill Rice, UC Santa Cruz, "The adapative significance of sexual recombination: theory and experiments."

2003

Dr. Steve Hubbell, Princeton University, "The neutral theory of biodiversity and biogeography, and beyond."

Dr.Michael Purugganan, North Carolina State, "Molecular evolution of Arabidopsis development."

Dr. Jeff Feder, Notre Dame, "Adaptive recursion"

2004

Dr. Tom Whitham, University of Northern Arizona, "Community and ecosystem genetics: a consequence of the extended phenotype"

Dr. Karl Schmid, "Evolutionary genomics of Arabidopsis thaliana: finding genes that are involved in adaptations."

Dr. Dale Clayton, University of Utah, ""The ecological basis of coevolutionary history."

Dr. Mariana Wolfner, Cornell University, "Seminal influences: the male-derived proteins that regulate ovulation, sperm storage and life span of mated female Drosophila"

2005

Dr. Peter Tiffin, University of Minnesota, "Genetic insights into the evolution of plant defenses."

Dr. Ken Fedorka, University of Georgia, "Sexualk conflict, immune suppression, and the evolution of mating strategies."

Dr. Jason Mezey, UC Davis, "Genetics, genomics, and the evolution of the wings and transcriptome of Drosophila."